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LHC filling with liquid helium at 4 kelvin

The CERN cryogenics team are filling the LHC with liquid helium, cooling entire sections to below 4K

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Engineering
17 December, 2014
Engineering
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17 December, 2014

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider gears up for run 2

CERN teams are carrying out all required tests to get proton beams back in the LHC for March 2015

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Accelerators
12 December, 2014
Accelerators
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12 December, 2014

One LHC sector up to full energy

Magnets in one sector of the accelerator are fully prepared for the restart at higher energies

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Accelerators
09 December, 2014
Accelerators
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09 December, 2014

IdeaSquare opens today

Today IdeaSquare is officially inaugurated, creating a unique space designed to nurture innovation at CERN

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Knowledge sharing
09 December, 2014
Knowledge sharing
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09 December, 2014

Take part in the CERN 60 Public Computing Challenge

Could volunteer computing simulate as much data as the LHC generates? Researchers are setting out to answer this question during a 12-day trial

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Computing
08 December, 2014

CERN takes to reddit to discuss Open Data

People across the globe put their questions to CERN in an "Ask Me Anything" session on reddit, on the topic of "Open Science, Open Data & More"

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Computing
02 December, 2014
Computing
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02 December, 2014

Beams come knocking on the LHC's door

Weekend tests with beams brought protons just short of the LHC

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Accelerators
24 November, 2014
Accelerators
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24 November, 2014

CERN makes public first data of LHC experiments

The Open Data Portal makes data from real collision events at the LHC openly available to all

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Accelerators
20 November, 2014
Accelerators
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20 November, 2014

LHCb observes two new baryon particles

The particles, known as the Xi_b'- and Xi_b*-, were predicted to exist by the quark model but had never been seen before

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Experiments
19 November, 2014
Experiments
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19 November, 2014

THE Port hackathon: Technology to help people

THE Port aims to develop technological projects that help to provide for people living in areas of conflict or natural disasters

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Computing
18 November, 2014
Computing
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18 November, 2014